Nietzsche and Critical Social Theory Affirmation, Animosity, and Ambiguity

Dr. Christine Payne is an instructor of Women’s Studies at San Diego State University. She also lectures for SDSU’s Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences Program. She specializes in social and political theory, feminist science and technology studies, cultural studies, and the sociology of knowledge. Her article, 'Desire and Doubt: The Potentials and the Potential Problems of Pursuing Play' was published in American Journal of Play in Fall 2018. She is also the co-editor of a recent special issue onNietzsche and Critical Social Theory of the journal Critical Sociology in which her article 'The Question of Ideology in Light of Perspectival Knowledge: The Truths of Marx and Nietzsche' appears. 
Michael J. Roberts is Professor of Sociology at San Diego State University where he teaches courses on social and cultural theory, science and technology studies, race and class intersectionality and social movements. He is, together with Christine Payne, co-editor of a special issue on Nietzsche and Critical Theory for the journal Critical Sociology. His articles have appeared in the journals Rethinking Marxism, Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination, Race & Class, Popular Music, The International Review for the Sociology of Sport and the Sociological Quarterly. He is also co-editor with Stanley Aronowitz of Class: The Anthology(Wiley, 2017). His book Tell Tchaikovsky the News: Rock’n’Roll, The Labor Question and the Musicians’ Union (Duke University Press, 2014) was nominated for the Mary Douglas Prize for best book by the Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association.